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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Susan Sontag

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life

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